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Are shortened telomeres a result of aging or a cause of it? Promoters of a supplement derived from the Astragalus membranaceus herb believe they know the answer. If you want to maintain health and lengthen your life, you need to lengthen your telomeres! You also need to open your wallet. Wide.

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Karen Malkin Lazarovitz, who underwent a preventive hysterectomy, followed by a preventive double mastectomy after discovering she had a BRCA gene mutation, is now offering her support to Montreal women dealing with hereditary breast or ovarian cancer concerns or BRCA mutations.

Four Arctic wolf cubs, abandoned by their mother, were saved from certain death by three zoologists at Parc Safari this year and nursed back to health. The wolves at the nature park have babies every year, but for some reason, the mother left her cubs this spring, which, as you may recall, was unseasonably cold.

It's not everyday that you get to enjoy an up close and personal conversation with a grinning baby albatross. There I was, minding my own business, tiptoeing softly down a trail on the island of Espanola in the Galapagos Islands while being careful not to step on the marine iguanas, when I met my first albatross.

The walls are painted lime green, red and royal blue, and employees can write on some of them if they so choose, as if this work space were a lab straight out of Google. It’s no coincidence that the Molecular Pathology Centre at the Jewish General Hospital is inspired by Google’s design esthetic.

We were greeted by a disturbing odour when we entered The Wild Center. We didn’t know what to make of the scent — we were camping; was it pungent body odour? — until we noticed Stickley sitting on a table.

I attended a different kind of tasting recently. It was hosted by an organization called The Renaissance des Appellations, whose members – more than 200 wineries from around the world – believe not only in organic and biodynamic grape growing, but eschew many of the winemaking techniques and interventions that have become so commonplace today.

The presidents of five Canadian universities have sparked a spirited debate by arguing that their institutions should be recognized as a top-tier group that focuses on research and graduate education, while enjoying preferred access to public research funding.